How Did The Black Death Stop?

>>1804767

The disease killed so many people that in some places there was not enough people left for the disease to spread any further.

People caught the jews that were poisoning the wells.

>>1804767
>Implying it ever stopped
Wiki says last outbreak happened in 2014 in Madagascar.

>>1804767
>warsaw representing poland
shit map desu senpai

Ever read Boccaccio's account in the Decameron of what it was like to live in Florence during the black death? Pretty interesting stuff.

>as soon as symptoms are visible people are abandoned by their families to die alone
>the disease quickly got so bad that the city resorted to digging mass graves for the dead, the vast majority of which did not even get last rites, much less a proper christian burial
>among the gentry there was a split in attitudes with some shutting themselves in their rooms barely eating or drinking anything, while others ate huge feasts and got blackout drunk every single night
>the conventional wisdom was that the plague was fatal once symptoms were visible, but he was aware of a few cases where people had recovered and wondered if the rush to abandon the sick had actually caused much more death than was perhaps necessary

and the most interesting
>everyone is 100% convinced this is the end of the world, but then it turns out not to be which leaves the clergy in an awkward position of explaining why god would kill millions if this wasn't actually related to the second coming.
>Their inability to satisfactorily do so and the years of living in constant fear of death led to a major breakdown in conventional morality and extreme skepticism of the church

You can see it in the stories of the book, not just that there's so much sex and whatnot, but a lot of them are blistering criticisms of the clergy.

>>1804865
Very good post. If you've got anything more to add or perhaps any subject on which you'd like to go into greater detail please go right ahead.

>>1804767
Natural selection and shit

>>1804767
When some mysterious disease is killing all those around you, I would imagine you learn what a thing or two.

>Some of the first quarantines were put into place on ships entering the city.
>Better hygiene. With a third of the population dying, there was less people, less trash, less rats. Also boiling their water before consuming it became more frequent.
>People spread out away from each other to try to escape the plague. Less people jam packed in the same are stopped the disease from spreading.

>>1804767
Selective immunity + better hygiene.

>>1804884
Whatever dude, it was just meant to be informative.

>>1804767
Swiss villagers just shot everyone on sight and it worked.

It didn't there were mass outbreaks of the disease all over the world after the black death. Also people who survived it tended to make people who are better suited at surving it next time.

People eventually developed immunity to it, duh

The bubonic plague only spreads through fleas and bile, once people thinned out it stopped the spread.

>>1804767
That plague doctor costume is anachronistic

>>1804913
The city of Venice established the first quarantine island (Lazaretto Vecchio) in the 14th century. I suppose that people figured this stuff out pretty quickly, especially in the trading hubs of the Mediterranean.

>>1805465
Not immunity, just resistance.

>>1804820
It disappeared from europe some centuries earlier.

But the first wave of plague stopped a few years after it came, probably because of the exhaustion of its pool of carriers.
But it didn't stop there. There were periodical local outbreaks in europe until the 1600-1700s, that killed a third or a quarter of a town or province and then went back to dormancy.

>>1804973
>>1804901
>selection
Is there really a genetic resistance to that disease that can be transmitted ?

>>1805577
Not that we know of

But poor people were still more fucked

>>1804767

Lots of reasons. One of the reasons is because the rats carrying the flea changed. In the beginning it was the black rat, but then later was replaced by the brown rat who where more scared of people.

>>1805577
Possible as was already pointed out in this thread some people survived after contracting the disease without any real medicine that could help them on top of living in the condition of the time, so there probably is something in them that can fight the plague but w/e it is or even if it was directly related to the plague we don't know.

>>1804767
>>1804767
>How Did The Black Death Stop?

All the people who got infected died.

>>1804820
black death isn't a synonym for plague, it's the name of certain plague pandemic in late 14th century.

>>1804767

Everyone susceptible to it died. There are, in fact, occassional cases of "Black Death" even to this day, but they're extremely rare and seldom fatal because everyone who was vulnerable to it has already died, and everyone around today carries antibodies to fight it.

>>1805656
Yeah, and the same plague(bubonic plague)does have some incidences per year.

>"Globally in 2013 there were about 750 documented cases which resulted in 126 deaths.[1]"

>>1805670
yeah, but that has nothing to do with black death.

>>1805669
Antibodies aren't inherited. Your body creates them after encountering an infectious agent. So only by contracting the plague do you get antibodies against it.

>>1805437
It was, I liked it and don't even thi k that poster was cynical

>>1805669
No

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Jews ran out of magic potions to dump in the wells.

>>1804836
Jews don't poison their own wells

>>1804865
What's the best translation of The Decameron? I've always wanted to read it because it seems like a more bawdy and 'funnier' Canterbury Tales.

couldnt one of the reasons be that the ones who survived were more resistant to diseases in a darwinian sense?

I like how the degenerate city scum was thoroughly fucked while many of the salt-of-the-earth rural people survived. We need another black plague in modern day.

>>1804884
Not him but an interesting result:
The good clergy, nuns, priests etc would stay with their flock, tend to the sick, and of course most always die from the plague because they're constantly around it.
The clergy who weren't that pious and were more concerned with themselves would flee to the countryside and hide out in rural monasteries or a place not affected by the plague. So because of this by the time the plague started to wind down the church was basically filled with the shittiest, least qualified, least pious clergy. Obviously this caused some problems with corruption and general shit which caused some pretty huge problems going forward before the Catholic counter reformation.

Why has your picture so low a resolution?

>>1804865
Fascinating, i didn't know such things could be.

>>1805499
how dit it look like?

>>1805669
i always wondered if there is a upper limit of an amount of antibodies you could fit inside you? Is it possible to carry them all?

>>1806003
Yeah, a poster talked about this.

>>1806090
the beaked plague doctor outfit didn't appear until the 17th century

>>1806230
was there a plaque in the 17th century where there were doctors with that outfit tending to the sick?

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>>1804767
Killed too many people and only left the resistant ones alive. Additionally, those survivors inherited so much money that they were able to afford to be much more sanitary. (Underwear and linens, for example, became commonplace, even among the poor.)

Resistant, mind you, not immune - Bubonic plague is still a thing, it's just, if you happen to be exposed to it, it's less likely to take. ...If you're of European descent, at least. (Though some ethnic groups are even more resistant, and others, much less.)

fun fact: contemporary europeans show the highest resistance to HIV due to either the black plague or small pox, http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15.html